Anyone who's had a finger pointed at them and been told they're pretty or attractive, there's a power that comes with that. But beauty for a woman becomes cumbersome because it's always being equated with youth.
I've always had this unresolved desire to prove that I could get a Ph.D., or contribute something else to the world.
When you're a young child, you pick a totem animal, and you just identify with it to the point of wishing you were that animal.
The largest room in the world is room for improvement. You know, some mornings my thighs are fat. Some days my hair looks great. That's the human condition.
Sometimes I think opposable thumbs were invented so teenage girls could use text messaging.
When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.
